The long-anticipated Virgin Hotels Nashville — located on a Musica Roundabout site at which Music Row and Midtown meld — opened Wednesday.
The hotel is housed in a distinctively shaped building (pictured) bathed in charcoal brick and located at the southwest corner of Division Street and 17th Avenue South at 1 Music Square W.
Major on-site work for construction of the Virgin Hotel building began in August 2017 and a late-2019 opening previously had been eyed.
Virgin Hotels Nashville offers 262 rooms ranging from 290 to 590 square feet, a rooftop infinity pool, two ballrooms and a café serving coffee from actor Hugh Jackman’s Laughing Man brand.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group (the parent company of Virgin Hotels) paid $11 million for the site in December 2015.
“We’ve taken measures above and beyond our standards to ensure our guests will feel comfortable, safe and well taken care of,” Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels, said in a release.
The Buccini/Pollin Group developed the site, with BLUR Workshop and Nashville-based Hastings Architecture having designed the building. Virgin Hotels operates the hotel business.
Permit valued at $76.1M issued for GBT project
Brentwood-based GBT Realty has landed a permit, valued at about $76.1 million, for its Parke West project under construction near the intersection of West End Avenue and Interstate 440.
The issuing of the permit follows GBT’s having announced in mid-June that Chartwell Hospitality will own, develop and manage the hotel component of Parke West.
The local office of Birmingham-based Hoar Construction is the general contractor, with the West End corridor project to offer an address of 100 Murphy Court.
First Horizon Bank is providing a $56.5 million construction loan for GBT's component of the roughly $100 million development, which will include a 172-room dual-branded Hilton Garden Inn and Home2 Suites Hotel. Parke West also will include a courtyard accessible via a nearby Metro Parks greenway, 11,000 square feet of ground-level retail (which is expected to feature a restaurant with outdoor seating) and 210 residential units.
GBT paid nearly $7.2 million for the site in mid-2019, according to Metro records. Now, according to updated records, GBT has sold to Chartwell the air rights for the hotel tower piece of the property for $6.45 million.
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Amazon to operate delivery hub at 100 Oaks site
Amazon.com Inc. will operate a delivery hub in the 100 Oaks area, with the company prepping to demolish a warehouse on the site, Nashville Business Journal reports.
Amazon has submitted plans to Metro to raze the 200,000-square-foot facility, located at 2960 Armory Drive and once home to an O’Charley’s commissary operations.
An entity affiliated with online retail behemoth Amazon paid almost $22.8 million for the property in December (read here).
NBJ reports Amazon plans to have constructed a 250,000-square-foot shipping hub that will accommodate about 170 workers.
Germantown project takes step forward
A major project involving mixed-use buildings and a potential brewery being eyed for a Germantown site has taken a step forward with the issuing of a permit to allow for demolition of buildings on the site.
The permit is valued at $200,000, with Hendersonville-based Environmental Abatement Inc. to handling the razing.
Nashville Block 5, a placeholder name, will offer three buildings at 1324 Second Ave. N. located two blocks from the Cumberland River.
Atlanta-based New City Properties — which will undertake a major overhaul of the nearby ex-Neuhoff site — acquired the property in May 2019 for $26.25 million and will serve as developer. The company is seeking an amendment to the specific plan zoning in place on the site in order to allow for residential uses.
Once finished, the planned project at 1324 will be integrated within the greater Neuhoff site, with an official name forthcoming.
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